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  1. uh, also my summons is to ayer, mass? where is that? my ass i'm driving 45 minutes to serve. no wonder they only call on car owners. curses!
  2. less than a month between registering a car in mass and getting jury duty notice... keep out of the car system if you don't wanna be called.
  3. @wiredwriter26 no http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/30/are-tweets-literature-rick-moody-thinks-they-can-be/
  4. I couldn’t believe he was willing to write the whole thing off so easy, and now he was going back to his hovel to pick his scabs.
  5. We fitted in the whole of a May to December romance—from unwarranted optimism to contempt—between Surf Ave and Union Square.
  6. All this had happened, and we still had like, I don’t know, eight stops or something. I just had to sit there with him staring at me.
  7. She was rather vehement about my non-awareness of her unique properties, from across the car, and I was nodding in agreement.
  8. On the train, I said, “I figure you are trying to be nice and you just don’t know how, because all you really know about me is my bio.”
  9. What if I’m just not in a place anymore when I can go through with it? What if the use-by date is used and bygone?
  10. Sometimes I think that when I am, flipping off some asshole, hating him, belittling him, maybe I’m honoring too.
  11. I was a social worker at a halfway house back when and I used to say to clients: when you are becoming angry you are becoming reverent.
  12. There’s a point when you can start repairing all the awful shit you said, but then you kind of dig in and say more awful shit.
  13. On the train, I thought: I just held this woman, this china vase, this wolverine, and now I’m no better than the vagrant in the two-seater.
  14. “You were just waiting to condescend,” I said on the train, and I got up and moved to the other side of the car.
  15. “Of course you think it’s me,” I said on the train, “because when does someone your age take on the responsibility for her—”
  16. On the train, I said, “This is really stupid, we were having a nice time, and now it’s all . . . I really think it’s you.”
  17. On the train, I said, “I can tell you are going to use multiple exclamation points when you write this down, and while I admire excess in—”
  18. On the train, I said, “Doesn’t it occur to you to give a person a chance? Does it occur to you that a person could be different?!!”
  19. On the train, I said, “There’s a reason that I have failed at all of this sort of thing for years, and I don’t want you to have to—”
  20. On the train I said, “The other thing you’re overlooking, if you don’t mind me saying, is tech stuff, and that is so political.”